[taxi]
Rose Hunter
i want to understand you and i want to understand a path
like was that mesquite i forgot
and why that blue’s so awful i didn’t know
what this was going to come to and it was the first time i'd proceeded in that way
in that way courageous in that way
regret
that i cannot re experience
that i did not experience why i'd try
confusion was nothing like a thicket and re the specifics
there never was a you i should not look for one here
black spiders snapped elbow mangled alphabet you miss
the north so do i rockaway
if a lion thinks he's a turtle he may have a point for starters
he lives in a turtle house and the bear i last saw in a teal sedan
with someone named lori outside the surtidora
he wouldn’t show me his teeth
and the glass between his knees
red sweat he was still all me all mine
and i still loved it partially
i knew it meant i was right to have carried the same
all those taxi rides around that circus city
and this lori taking him to pay bills
what i was doing then too
all that whizzing around with a bottle
ROSE HUNTER'S book of poetry, to the river, was published in 2010 by Artistically Declined Press. She is also the author of A Foal Poem and You As Poems. She thinks that Whoever Brought [Her] Here Will Have To Take [Her] Home. In the meantime she lives in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico. She is on Twitter.
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